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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Charpentierana from pup® found in the 
top shoots. The Lancashire collectors 
will do well to look at the plant again. 
I should be very glad of a supply of the 
summer brood of the larvae of L. Vacci- 
niella and N. Weaveri, in order to for- 
ward some to Professor Frey. — H. T. 
Stainton ; June 14, 1S56. 
Colenphora larvae on Thistles. — Re- 
ferring to your note in last week’s ‘In- 
telligencer,’ I beg to say that these 
ghosts have a corporeal existence, as I 
have found several feeding: they have 
now left the plant, and attached them- 
selves to the side of the flower-pot, so 
that I hope they are pupae; but unless 
my luck be better than usual they will 
not reach the imago state. — G. 51. Salt, 
Shrewsbury ; June 1 7, 1 856. 
Bucculatrix Boyerella (Lep.). — I have 
taken this insect freely. Does any one 
want it? — I bid. 
Elachista adscitella (Lep.). — I have 
just bred this from Mr. Scott’s larvae of 
the Sesleria ceerulea. — H. T. Stain ton ; 
June 1 9, 1 856. 
T,arva on Mustard. — I am now rearing 
a larva which I conclude to belong to 
the Tineina : it is a very light yellow 
(almost white), with a black head: I 
found it on the petals of Sinapis Alba. 
If you could tell me what it is from my 
description I should be much obliged ; 
if not perhaps some of your readers could 
tell me. — E. G. Clayton, 125, Eastern 
Road , Brighton; June 16, 1856. 
[We do not recognise the larva ; per- 
haps we might be able to say something 
positively if we saw it.] 
Why do Lepidoptera recently hatched 
hang their wings downwards ? — I had yes- 
terday the opportunity of completing the 
observation I mentioned in my last, 
p. 60. 1 found a specimen of Nepti- 
cula trvnaculella , which had evidently 
emerged from the chrysalis but a short 
time before, sitting on the sand in a hori- 
zontal position. 1 watched it attentively 
for ten or fifteen minutes, during which 
time the w ings and cilia gradually spread 
out, and then it suddenly shook its wings 
and threw them up perpendicularly over 
its back. It now remains to explain the 
reason, which I confess I cannot: the 
whole process seems so dissimilar to that 
which obtains among the Macro-Lepi- 
doptera : even in the filling out of the 
wings there was none of the wrinkling 
which is usual among larger insects, but 
they seemed to grow. — T. Boyd, 17, 
Clapton Square ; May 10, 1856. 
Westwood and Humphrey wanted . — 1 
am in want of a cheap copy of this work, 
and should be glad to hear from any one 
who has it to dispose of, stating price, 
&e. — G. J. Bostock, York Place , Bide- 
ford ; June 14, 1856. 
MEMORABILIA FOR JUNE. 
Coleopteha. — By J. W. Douglas . — 
Now, when every clod, pool and leaf 
teems with insect-life, and chance as 
much as skill may bestow a rarity upon 
a collector, it seems superfluous to say 
anything which might restrict his atten- 
tion in any way ; yet it may not be 
amiss to tell some of our younger col- 
lectors that June is their harvest time. 
Flowers in and at the sides of woods, 
Umbelliferce especially, are now rich in 
beetles, especially in Longicomes. Lep- 
tura sexguttata is all but extinct at 
Darenth Wood, but I presume is still to 
be taken in some of the other Kentish 
woods where there are old trees: I once 
took about twenty on some dwarf Um- 
belliferce in the New Forest in June, and 
now I have not a single specimen, so 
that I should he glad of one if any per- 
son is fortunate enough to take the spe- 
cies ; but I fear it is rather late to set 
about looking for it. The long-horned 
lovers of flowers fly in the sunshine, and 
may often be seen settling or sitting on 
their favourites, and in dull weather may 
